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PAY ATTENTION!
While everyone is distracted with the recent shootings, protesting, fires and storms, guess what? They passed a bill to cut Medicare and Medicaid.
The House just passed a bill to reduce Medicaid spending by $1 trillion and Medicare by $473 billion.
That's along with the:
$37 billion in cuts for affordable housing,
$100 billion for Pell Grants,
cutting Head Start by $3 billion,
and essentially gutting the WIC program that provides food assistance to 1.25 million women, infants, and children.
While everyone is rightly consumed with the recent tragedy of Las Vegas, Puerto Rico, Houston, Florida, St Thomas, St John and St Croix, the House has passed this bill.
What sort of people are doing this? As if we didn't know.
Glorfindel
(9,706 posts)Nothing motivates these repukes except greed and hatred. They have only just begun dismantling the United States of America. You ain't seen nothin' yet, baby. Anyone who thinks we can "reach across the aisle" or "go along to get along" or "arrive at reasonable compromise" is a deluded fool. The pukes play for keeps, and the more you try to placate them, the more vicious and ravenous they will become.
mountain grammy
(26,573 posts)bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)WIC!?!? Head Start?
IIRC Right has always been against Head Start. Don't want people knowing more than they need for their destined lowly role. See, for example, English and German upper-class diatribes in 18th and 19th century against education for all.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,483 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Disgusting.
Tavarious Jackson
(1,595 posts)Things like this that republicans are always so hungry to do
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,790 posts)Hamlette
(15,394 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,432 posts)Maybe they don't care about people because they aren't people at all but they actually came out of pods instead of a womb.
MLAA
(17,165 posts)SergeStorms
(18,907 posts)Ivanka is SO committed to women's and children's issues. SHE was going to be the "voice of reason" for those issues, and fight so darned hard!
This couldn't possibly mean she's as full of shit as her father, could it?
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)And that I will wake up back in Obama's America. I feel like I walk around shell shocked most of the time.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,752 posts)Stonepounder
(4,033 posts)A rough, first-draft, GOP wet dream proposed budget was passed. The chances of those cuts actually making it into law are somewhere between Trump winning the Nobel Peace Prize and him being inducted into Mensa. Even the GOP hard-liners have to know that if they tried to pass all those cuts the pitchforks and torches would come out faster than Trump can say 'Fake News'.
SergeStorms
(18,907 posts)they'll pass it in the House, though. There's not a snowball's chance in hell of passing in the Senate, but I can see them ramming it through the House with little fanfare.